"A Loaded Gun," is a piece by Patrick Radden Keefe, which published on February 11 and 18, 2013 on The New Yorker weekly magazine. This piece revolves around Amy Bishop, a neuroscientist working at the University of Alabama, Huntsville city. On the day of February 12, 2012, at the conference room of the Shelby Center for Science and Technology, Bishop used a 9-mm rifle killed three colleagues and wounded three others. The question is how does a person with a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph. D) from prestigious university of Harvard, with a cozy family-a husband and four children, with no criminal record turn into such a cold-blooded killer? Does Bishop's tenure ended is the main reason that leads to the crime, or because of her "gun accidents" that …show more content…
Then, the authors switch to the past story of Bishop family in Braintree, along with tragic death of Amy 'sibling, Seth. The structure of this essay help readers better understand the psychological development of a young girls Amy Bishop, and the external influence has created an Amy Bishop today. After the death of Seth, Keefer mentioned about the lack of mental therapy, counseling or absent of Psychiatric evaluation, and most important, the over protection of Judy, Amy’s mother, to avoid her child from being in jail. Amy did not receive enough mentally help, and a heavy psychological shadow has created a mental defect later in her life. "Amy continued to eat meals in the kitchen where her brother had die, and to walk past his bedroom with old woodworking project bore the chiseled letters S-E-T-H.” This quote is very important, because imagine if you were Amy, and living in an environment that is always reminiscent of the worst memories! It will ruin anyone's soul. In later investigate, Amy said that she felt stress, hallucinations, and "hear the voice" off and on, but her family did not aware of such changes. This detail is similar with other mass shooting in the United States, the lack of sophistication to recognize the "walking bomb." The purpose of Keefer's essay is to look at the past of a mass shooter, we can understand their motives, and
The Kansas City Gun Experiment was a study that took place between 1992 and 1993. The goal of the study was to examine if increased police patrol in a “hot spot” of the city would help to reduce the amount of gun-related crime. The data collected by the research team was solely quantitative as it mainly consisted of statistics and other data numerical in nature of the increase/decrease of gun violence in these beats. After the twenty-nine week period of the study, the experiment’s findings showed that an increase in police patrol, as well as seizure of illegally carried guns, did help to eliminate gun-related crimes.
Scott Kjar, financial aspects teacher at Baldwin-Wallace College, is on the ace gun side of the debate of gun control. He begins by discussing the shooting frenzy at Virginia Tech by a man named Cho. His entire defense is economists have a tendency to contradict gun control on the grounds that guns bring more income to the United States. Kjar contends Cho had an arrangement to kill quite a few people on the grounds that he had arranged it out prior. Cho would have killed the individuals with or without guns. Kjar says guns are by all account not the only type of weapons. Contrasted with different works like meeting from Democracy Now, Kjar gives the master gun perspective, while Goddard gives the contradicting perspective saying there ought to be harder gun laws.
This article critique is on violence that is due to guns. It was written by Zoe Chance on October 10, 2017. Zoe Chance is a college professor and a mother of her daughter. She lives in a very safe neighborhood in Connecticut. Zoe has not been in a dangerous situation with guns herself, but the people that she is close with has. She would go to gun ranges to shoot for fun and she really enjoyed them. Zoe even went to shoot shotguns at her wedding still in her dress. It was only when her loved ones started to become victims that she began to have mixed feelings about them.
On December 29th, 1977 a man named Ambrose Griffin was bringing in groceries from their shopping trip with his wife. On his way to their car to retrieve more of their bags, he dropped to the ground. When his wife found him, she discovered he had been shot in a drive-by. One of the victim’s sons had seen a man walking around their neighborhood with a gun in his hand. However, his gun did not match the gun used to kill Ambrose Griffin. The gun used in the shooting was a .22-caliber gun. It was soon discovered by the police that the gun used in the murder of Griffin was the same gun that was fired into the house of a woman who lived just a few streets away from the Griffin’s home. The police worked hard to find the shooter to bring justice to Griffins family but the investigation came to an end when all their leads had been exhausted.
The objective of this paper is to discuss the article: Lengthening Chambers and Forcing Cones; American Gunsmith Book of the Shotgun, By Michael R. Orlen. I will cover my thoughts on this article, and briefly go over lengthening shotgun chambers and forcing cones.
82% of the homicides in Chicago in 1967 occurred as a result of altercations-domestic, money, liquor, etc.-precisely the situa- tions where the intention is more apt to be ambiguous rather than single-minded. Third, a comparison of victims of homicide with victims of serious assaults, with respect to their race and sex, shows: Victims of homicides and victims of serious assaults are distributed quite similarly by race and sex among the population and differ substantially in these characteristics from the Chicago population as a whole. (See Table 3.) Next, it should be noted that only 30% of the victims of fatal gunshot attacks in 1967 were wounded by more than one shot. While data are not available on the number of shots fired, it may be readily assumed that the majority of the 70%/ of single wound homicides occurred in situations where the attacker did not exhaust the multiple shot capacity of his firearm. Finally, in 54% of the situations which led to homicide in 1967, the police noted that the offender or the victim or both had been drinking prior to the homicidal attack. This figure probably does not include a number of situations in which the police officer was unable to determine whether intoxicants were involved ( Frank Z., 1968).
In a masterly crafted and scholarly researched study of the Rampage: The Social Roots of School Shootings, Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor of the University of Massachusetts Amherst, doctor Katherine S. Newman, takes a deeper look into the sociology of school shootings and concluded that gender, social class and bullying can affect and lead young children to these violent acts. Research on gender profile of the shooters suggests that in the culture today males’ masculinity is linked with violence, but that does not necessary mean that if one is a male they are a shooter. However, it has been proven that throughout the history of school shootings no female has acted in a mass killing using guns. For example, through Newman’s credible research,
Over the past years media has been overwhelmed with news about mass shootings happening around America and if mental illness is the primary cause of the violent act. On February 2014, Jonathan M. Metzl and Kenneth T. MacLeish published their article “Mental Illness, Mass Shootings, and the Politics of American Firearms” in the American Journal of Public Health that addresses the issue that mental illness has very little to do mass shootings which is commonly used on the aftermath of the shooting
In the Upfront debate “ Why We’re Still Arguing About Gun Control?” (2017) Patricia Smith challenges the readers to consider that there is two sides to the argument about gun control after the tragic incidents that have happened but it's all comes down to the second amendment. Smith believes that the debates really hit the center core when it comes to the discussion of the second admented an “individual’s right to bear arms or just the peoples collective right”. Smiths’ purpose is to let people know that there will always have different views when it comes to guns and in order to understand people need to see both sides. Smiths’ targets people who are concerned citizens by letting them know that there is two sides to the problems.
In Firearms: A Global History to 1700, Kenneth Chase investigates why Europe perfected firearms when the Chinese invented them. Kenneth Chase is an attorney at law who received his PhD in East Asian Languages and Civilizations from Harvard University. He uses primary sources in the form of texts and paintings as well as secondary sources in this monograph to trace the origin and spread of firearms. He also uses these sources to characterize militaries and determine why they used or did not use firearms. Chase dismisses the notion that the discrepancy between Eastern and Western firearms development was the result of cultural aversion. If anything, he argues that Europeans were more averse to firearms due to its association to Satan and a general
Tiffany Hsu, a author for “The new york Times”, In the article “Bank of america to stop financing makers of military style guns”, Tiffany argues that gun violence is wrong and that the people who start it all should solve the problem. First Tiffany says that Bank of America will stop lending money to gun manufacturers that make military-inspired firearms for civilian use. Next she then goes on to to inform that the AR-15-style rifles that have been used in multiple mass shootings” are a huge problem and are used in mass shooting. Finally Tiffany goes on to say The bank will wind down its relationships with the companies that choose to continue making AR-15 style rifles and similar guns. Through the use of pathos the author makes the reader
She continues in this sequel to talk about the abuse she faced and the dysfunction that surrounded her life as a child and as a teen, and the ‘empty space’ in which she lived in as a result. She talks about the multiple personalities she was exhibiting, the rebellious “Willie” and the kind “Carol”; as well as hearing noises and her sensory problems. In this book, the author puts more emphasis on the “consciousness” and “awareness” and how important that was for her therapeutic process. She could not just be on “auto-pilot” and act normal; the road to recovery was filled with self-awareness and the need to process all the pieces of the puzzle—often with the guidance and assistance of her therapist. She had a need to analyze the abstract concept of emotions as well as feelings and thoughts. Connecting with others who go through what she did was also integral to her
According to Everytown for Gun Safety, a gun control advocacy group, “there have been 160 school shootings since 20 children and six adults were killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School in December 2012” (Lemire).The 160 school shootings don’t include the endless attacks on movie theaters across the country. For instance, a man with a history of mental illness who is armed with a pellet gun, hatchet and pepper spray open fires at a movie theater in Antioch, Tennessee. Not even two weeks before that, a man killed two people and wounded nine others before fatally shooting himself during a screening of the movie "Trainwreck" at a theater in Lafayette, Louisiana. Another set of movie attacks came the same month that Colorado theater shooter James Holmes was sentenced to life in
For almost a century firearm policy in the United States has been in the spotlight. If legislators would take a good look at the different countries and their gun laws, it would be beneficial for the people of the United States. Vizzard was looking at the federal legislation enacted in 1968 as it appeared to shift away from the lassiez-faire approach to policy on firearms (2015). When looking at the gun control laws in the past twenty years it shows nothing has essentially changed at the national level (Vizzard,2015). There is some history that should be put into account Vizzard looks at, “after the 1993 passage of both the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention and federal assault weapon restrictions, the 1994 Republican congressional victories marked the end of any momentum for additional federal legislation”
The art of firearms evidence collection has been around since the creation of firearms; however, there have been many scientific breakthroughs that have streamlined investigative techniques. Firearms evidence collection is a very important step in solving a crime, and proving guilt to a jury. The key steps in the process of firearms evidence collection are safety procedures, crime scene procedures, collection of evidence, packaging of evidence, and the analyzing of collected evidence. Successfully following all the proper steps will allow investigators to determine the facts of a crime scene, and lead to the solving of even the most unique investigations.